I have been very pleased with the progress of my legislation, HR 1207, which
calls for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve and removes many significant
barriers towards transparency of our monetary system. This bill now has nearly
170 cosponsors, with support from both Republicans and Democrats. Senator
Bernie Sanders has introduced a companion bill in the Senate S 604, which
will hopefully begin to gain momentum as well. I am very encouraged to see
so many of my colleagues in Congress stand with me for greater transparency
in government.

Some have begun to push back against this bill, and I am very happy to address
their concerns.

The main argument seems to be that Congressional oversight over the Fed
is government interference in the free market. This argument shows a misunderstanding
of what a free market really is. Fundamentally, you cannot defend the Federal
Reserve and the free market at the same time. The Fed negates the very foundation
of a free market by artificially manipulating the price and supply of money
- the lifeblood of the economy. In a free market, interest rates, like the
price of any other consumer good, are decentralized and set by the market.
The only legitimate, Constitutional role of government in monetary policy
is to protect the integrity of the monetary unit and defend against counterfeiters.....

Please fax your representatives and express support for HR 1207 and Senate
S 604. Make sure your representatives know this is not just an audit issue,
but a free market issue and the entire Fed must go.

Unfortunately some members of Congress are seeking to expand the Fed's powers!
We must do everything we can to prevent that. The Fed does not need more power,
they micro-mismanaged the economy to the sorry state that it is in.

Please point that out when Faxing Congress. I am not going to draft a letter,
it is best if you express these issues in your own words.

Lynn Seely at Metrofax created
the following up to date Metrofax compatible Fax lists for all Congress. The
last number in each row is the Fax number. You can also get Phone, Fax, and
Email numbers from the Online
Directory for the 111th Congress.

I was hoping for simple procedures to get the above lists in Metrofax for
everyone to use. Unfortunately, Metrofax would not make those lists public.
MyFax would not do so either.

It is possible to create and upload a small group by putting the lines you
want in a file on your computer and saving it as a .CSV (comma separated value)
file. You can do this in Microsoft Word or Notepad or any other text editor.

I wanted to upload all of those lists (the upload itself is fast) but the
grouping process after the upload is extremely cumbersome. If you wish to create
a small group for just your state, perhaps adding some extra senators or whatever
you may wish to give it a go. There is an upload feature on the Manage Groups
page. Unfortunately the handling of large groups is so convoluted in Metrofax,
that I gave up. They have my list of complaints.

Do not put any more than 50 in a group, and bear in mind the process gets
very unwieldy for multiple large groups. Also note that the upload function
sometimes "goes away" and when it does, it does not come back when you refresh
the page. You have to leave the page and come back to it.

However, the scheme is probably workable and may just take 10 minutes of so
if all you want to do is create one small group. It would have taken hours
to build the groups displayed above. I gave up. I am hoping for some updated
procedures but it will likely be a while.